In This Issue:

June 17 – Flea Market at Capitolo Park + Community Garden Day at Passyunk Garden

June 21 – Make Music Philly

June 22 – Language Exchange

July 1-2 – Passyunk Gardens Open Hours

Support Our Local Elementary Schools

All Summer – Inside Out with the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Thank you to everyone who came out to vote at our May general meeting. We’re excited to welcome new board members Krisit Bucholz, Monica Montiel and Suzanne Tavani a new executive team and several new committee chairs. We look forward to working with our neighbors in the coming year!

Meetings are held the first Tuesday of every month except in July and August. Hear updates about projects in the neighborhood and how to get involved with communications, beautification, clean streets, education and other initiatives. You can also let us know if you’re interested in volunteering by visiting our website and filling out our volunteer form.

June Zoning Meeting

Thursday, June 13, 2017

7:00 p.m.

Saint Maron Church, 1013 Ellsworth Street

Sites to be discussed:

811-13 Alter Street

1221 Peters Street

1161 S. 12th Street

1165 S. 12th Street

1238 Ellsworth Street

PSCA holds public zoning meetings on the second Tuesday of every month. Meetings typically end before 9:00pm. Check www.passyunk.org or our Facebook page for updates on cases to be heard at the meeting.

Parks on Tap is Philadelphia’s traveling beer garden that gives back! It is a partnership with Philadelphia Parks and Recreation, Fairmount Park Conservancy and Avram Hornik of FCM Hospitality that brings a beer garden to a 20 different parks for 20 weeks. Parks on Tap is an initiative with the city that kicked off in 2016, to engage the Philadelphia community and give back to the neighborhood parks. There is fresh food, beer on tap, wine, snacks and non-alcoholic beverages and family friendly activities in a festive outdoor environment featuring comfortable chairs and hammocks and clean restrooms.

Passyunk Gardens will be a venue for this city-wide music celebration of the start of summer.

Passyunk Gardens Open Hours

Sunday, July 2, 2017 (and every Sunday from now until it’s too cold)

4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

We’re ready to start the season at Passyunk Gardens! Every Sunday from 4-6pm come enjoy the garden, check out what we are growing and get gardening questions answered. It’s a great way to meet your neighbors and other gardeners and enjoy a pocket of green space in the neighborhood. Occasionally we do some cleanup and weeding tasks, and neighbors are welcome to clip herbs and greens and whatever is abundant at the moment. We also often have extra starter plant for sale to benefit the work at the garden.

Or join us for our monthly workday

Saturday, July 1, 2017 (and the first Saturday of each month)

9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

If you’re interested in working on some projects in the garden – join us the first Saturday of every month. All gardening skill levels welcome. If you’d like to join the team that tends the garden email us at beautifcation@passyunk.org.

Every year Vare-Washington students present and defend a 15-page paper around the topic, “what problem will I solve?” The students practice and prepare a presentation and defend their work before a distinguished panel of community stakeholders. Bare-Washington is looking for volunteers who can commit a half hour to an hour to watch presentations and ask students questions about their work. You will help deepen the thinking of our students and your presence on the panel means the world to our students. If you are able to commit to a block of time June 5 -14, please let us know by filling out this Doodle poll.

Inside Out Returns!

May 15 – August 15

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is returning to South Philadelphia this summer. There are thirteen reproductions of works from the museum’s permanent collection in outdoor sites throughout South Philadelphia as selected by us and our friends at East Passyunk Crossing Civic Association and the East Passyunk Avenue Business Improvement District. For more information about the program, click here.